rip off the roofs of our houses, and this one exploded every house that was in its path for a 200 mile swath of destruction. there s no lens. there s no lens big enough to show people just how awful it is, and you go through go through shock and disbelief, and numbness and then back to being resolute and then you do it all over again. president biden will tour some of the destruction on wednesday. i want to go now first to dawson springs, which is about an hour from here. the mayor there estimates about 75% of that community s structures were wiped out entirely. ed lav
administrator, and we will bring that to you as soon as it gets started. there s the governor now. let s take a listen. good afternoon, everybody. this is kentucky s most devastating tornado event in our history. we have lost far too many of our brothers and sisters. the damage is devastating. an entire blocks more than one block with nothing standing. to the people of america, there s no lens big enough to show you the extent of the damage here in grace county or in kentucky. nothing that was standing in the direct line of this tornado is still standing. we currently have 18 counties with damage. as of this morning we had between 36 and 50,000
i try to put my head down and push through and get done what needs to be done. i spent eight hours yesterday trying to get in touch with a cousin to see if she was alive and i saw her yesterday and i m really grateful for that. just heard from one of my uncles, lost two cousins in bulenberg county. so you go from shock and disbelief to grief to being focused and ready to push forward and you cycle through all of it multiple times a day. this is personal and when you see it, there s no lens big enough to capture just how awful this is but, again, we are tough people. we re going to make it. governor andy beshear of kentucky, thank you for coming to the sunday show. i and everyone who are watching are thinking and praying for you and the people of the kentucky. we thank you and we ll take every single prayer we can get.
0 nbc s wendy joins us from there. it s good to talk to you again. what are you hearing from folks in these ongoing efforts to rescue as many people as possible? yasmin, good afternoon to you. good to speak to you again. it s incredible, the outpouring of help and support that you are hearing, and seeing people come out in the downtown area. wherever you look there seems to be destruction, and everywhere you turn there seems to be a story, and people sometimes think we are exaggerating that thing, but i m not kidding you, you can walk one block and find a store yeah then walk another block and find somebody who has drove here, and we just spoke to somebody who drove from nashville that happened upon a law firm that was decimated by the storm, and started moving things and cutting out wires, and it was incredible. you ask them why they are doing it? the community needed help. then we have another wife and husband, and that was his law firm completely destroyed in the storm and all the